[Richmond? 1860]. Pale blue broadside, 3-1/2" x 6-1/4". Various type fonts and styles. Light soil. Very Good. Contemporary signature in ink on blank verso, which is difficult to decipher but appears to be 'C.S. Fleming.' The Constitutional Union Party was a last-ditch effort to save the Union. The sole plank... More

Washington: W.H. Moore, 1860. 16pp. An untrimmed, uncut folio sheet, entirely unsophisticated. Owner's signature at top margin. Fine. John Bell of Tennessee and Edward Everett of Massachusetts were the presidential candidates of a new political party in the election of 1860. Known as the Constitutional Union Party, it had no... More

Geneseo, Ill. Union Advocate Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1862. 16pp, in original printed wrappers with reinforced spine. Very Good plus. Cook demonstrates the absence of justification for the South's inauguration of Civil War. Enjoying every benefit of the Union, including the "unfair advantage" of the Three-Fifths Clause, the South... More

[np]: Chronicle Print, 1863. 18pp, stitched. Light dusting and corner wear, printed in double columns. Good+ or so. A Democrat, Woodward was a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court while running for Governor. He did not wage an active campaign, preferring to remain on the Bench; he lost a.... More

Columbia, SC: 1830, 1834. 37, [3 blank] pp, errata slip pasted to final blank. Stitched into modern marbled wrappers, Very Good. Part Second: 45, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound, one gathering browned, Good+. Though the first part is styled 'Second Edition,' it has been significantly enlarged from the 1824 first... More

Boston: Prentiss and Deland, 1864. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 52pp. Lightly dusted, rear wrap separating. Very Good. A Massachusetts Major's argument against his removal from General Nathaniel Banks's staff for disclosing embarrassing information about the disastrous Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862. Conceding "indiscretions," Copeland had written and arranged for... More

Knoxville: T. Haws, Printer, 1882. Broadside, 9 1/2" x 12 3/4". Printed in several type styles and fonts. Light toning, Near Fine. Leonidas Campbell Houk was a political powerhouse in East Tennessee which, after that region's travails during the Civil War, was a stoutly Republican enclave. He represented the Second... More

Boston: Published by Henry Tolman & Co. [1862]. Folio. 5, [1 blank] pp. Folded. Decorative title page. Lightly spotted and worn, else Very Good. This rare printed Song is in six verses; verses 1-4 are printed beneath the musical score; verses 5-6 are printed as text following the music. First... More

[Washington: 1868]. Caption title [as issued], untrimmed and uncut. Light wear. 11, [1 blank] pp. Very Good. The New Hampshire Senator attacks President Johnson's reconstruction policies, pursuant to which, without Congressional assistance, he "took the work of reconstruction into his own unaided hands" and allied himself with unreconstructed rebels... More

New York: R.C. Root, Anthony & Co. 1866. xii, 176 pp. Original printed wrappers. Disbound, light wrapper wear, Very Good. Craven was charged with having failed to engage the Confederate Ironclad 'Stonewall' off the coast of Spain in March 1865. His explanation, that his wooden vessel [the Niagara] would have... More

New York: J.S. Redfield, Publisher, 1872. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 182pp, illustration frontis. Spine broken, wrappers chipped at extremities and along spine. Good+. A great soldier, Grant was unfortunately afflicted with an "evil genius...an irresistible longing to become" President, despite his "utter unfitness and incapacity" for that office. Miles 558. More

1862. 8pp. Original printed wrappers [light wear], stitched. Caption title [as issued]. Untrimmed. Minor foxing, else Very Good. The Committee had charged Cummings with having embezzled public funds earmarked for the troops in the field. Cummings defends himself, calling the charge a "calumny." Kelley sticks up for his constituent. OCLC... More

New York: Pubd. by Currier & Ives. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862 by Currier & Ives in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. 152 Nassau St. N.Y. [1862]. 10" x 14" color broadside... More

New York: Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St. [1862?]. Richly colored broadside engraving, 9 3/4" x 10 1/2", matted in cardboard frame with two small paper tabs. The sinking Cumberland lists to one side; dozens of its sailors jump into the water and swim to small rescue boats... More

[np: 1861]. Broadside, 11" x 17." Printed in three columns. Signed in type at the end, 'Curtius.' Untrimmed at the outer margin, with several small holes at its blank extremity. A vertical fold split expertly repaired but costing several letters. Lightly foxed, Good+. A rare, evidently unrecorded broadside, "written," says... More